Anti-gay fanatic Fred Phelps has died. The obvious temptation is to gather outside his funeral with signs calculated to cause as much discomfort as possible to his friends and family. Let them see what it feels like.
But Tyler Lopez says we should just cheer for the unity that his antics provoked to energize the movement for gay rights in this country…and I think that's good advice. The last few years, a lot of people in this country found themselves on the fence on issues like Gay Marriage and increasingly pressured to take a side. They looked at the folks fighting for gay rights and they looked at the folks opposing them…and as long as the face of the latter group was Fred Phelps and his Westboro Alleged Baptists, they had no trouble deciding who were the good guys.